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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Stephenson family recipe book

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton